Commentary on Mary Finucane´s Article: The Disney Princess Effect

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Little girls or little women, the Disney Princess effect, Author Mary Finucane started to notice her three year old daughter stopped being a child, she no longer cared about running, playing, she only cared to dress up and was “waiting for her prince”. Finucane argues that due to the media little girls are growing up to fast. She uses logos, pathos, and ethos to illustrate the deterioration of youth in little girls today. This topic explores the incline of influences towards young girls by the media on how they perceive the modern “Hot Look”.
This article talks about the way media is changing little girls to soon. The author talks about how different TV shows in the media, and different advertisements or songs have changed and influenced children particularly young girls into becoming little women to soon. She brings up research she has done on this topic and also brings in personal experiences with her little girl as well.
In validating her argument that little girls are growing up to fast she uses logos by stating that she believes $4 billion Disney Empire is just a step closer to a path that is becoming a concern to parent toward their young daughters. She states that that Disney has created new and scarier challenges for mothers by self-objectifying, and cyber bullying and their body image. TV shows like “Hannah Montana and “High School Musical” have created a new idea of a female childhood. Other than just Disney she looks deeper into what else is making young girls grow up to fast. ...

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...of unhappiness. In her article she also uses the word objectifying to illustrate the concern that most young girls are being objectified. She creates the emotion of sadness and disgust. The thought of a young girl being objectified creates sadness in visualizing and thinking of it.
Finucane has a background in play therapy and has a young daughter. She has done many hours of research on this topic and has thousands of followers due to her opinion and argument on the subject.In the end girls will always be surrounding by the media and there is no way to stop from what they watch or see but parents can monitor it the best they can. Its hard not criticize the girl for obsessing over the media when parents are also looking at the iPhones 24/7

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